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Ben Carson Leads Donald Trump in New National Poll; Third Republican Debate Set for Wednesday; Sheriff to Decide Fate of Officer in Violent Arrest; U.S. Weighing Direct Action Against ISIS; Hasakah Province Free of ISIS But Still Vulnerable; Showdown in the South China Sea; Last Gun Store in San Francisco Closes; Study: Climate Change Will Make Some Areas Uninhabitable; Whale Watching Boats Capsize; China Gambling Casinos Open for Business. Aired 1-2a ET

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[01:00:10] ISHA SESAY, CNN ANCHOR: This is CNN NEWSROOM. Live from Los Angeles.

Ahead this hour, Donald Trump gets bumped from the top of a national Republican poll for the first time in more than 100 days.

Plus the shocking video of a violent arrest in the middle of a high school classroom. Will it cost this officer his job?

And they managed to push ISIS out, but it came at a heavy price.

Hello, and welcome to our viewers in the United States and around the world. I am Isha Sesay. NEWSROOM L.A. starts right now.

We begin with U.S. politics and a new frontrunner in the Republican presidential race. A new national poll shows Ben Carson topping Donald Trump for the first time. This comes on the eve of the third Republican debate.

CNN's Sara Murray has the details.

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SARA MURRAY, CNN POLITICS CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): Dr. Ben Carson is going toe to toe with the entire Republican field. And he's winning the latest round.

BEN CARSON (R), PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE: That is the right color, because that way, if you get blood on it, you can't tell.

MURRAY: The first time since taking the lead months ago, Donald Trump is no longer on top nationwide, leaving the businessman struggling to explain the shift.

DONALD TRUMP (R), PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE: Well, I don't get it, you know, to be honest with you. I'm a little bit surprised.

MURRAY: Carson ekes past Trump with Republicans, 26 percent to 22 percent nationwide in a new CBS-"New York Times" poll. Today, Carson picking up an endorsement from an MMA fighter.

CARSON: That's a good picture right there.

MURRAY: The fight to lead the field increasingly looks like a two-way race, as every other Republican remains stuck in single digits.

CARSON: It's a marathon. It's not a sprint. Polls will go up and down over the next year. No one should be terribly alarmed and no one should be terribly excited.

MURRAY: A cornerstone of Carson's appeal, like Trump, he too is a Washington outsider at a time of growing frustration with the political class. It's an image he embraces in his latest campaign ad.

CARSON: I'm Ben Carson. I'm running for president. And I'm very much outside the box.

MURRAY: Meantime, as Trump loses the lead, he's lashing out, claiming Carson wants to do away with Medicare.

TRUMP: Ben wants to abolish Medicare. And I think, you know, abolishing Medicare, I don't think you're going to get away with that one. And it's actually a program that's worked.

MURRAY: A claim Carson denies.

CARSON: I would never get rid of the program.

MURRAY: As recently as Sunday, Trump said he was open to Medicare alternatives.

GEORGE STEPHANOPOULOS, ABC NEWS: Do you also agree with Ben Carson when he says Medicare probably won't be necessary?

TRUMP: Well, it's possible. You're going to have to look at that.

MURRAY (on camera): Now here in Sioux City, Iowa, Donald Trump could not hide his frustration with being behind in the latest polls. He said it's terrible to come in second, but he also said he's not giving up in Iowa, promising to spend money and continue campaigning here in Iowa and pressing his supporters to work even harder on his behalf.

Sara Murray, CNN, Sioux City, Iowa.

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SESAY: Tara Setmayer joins us now from New York.

Tara, great to have you on the program. The theme of Wednesday's GOP debate is your money, your vote, and it potentially presents a major economic policy test to of course all the candidates but especially outsider candidates like Ben Carson and Donald Trump. What are your expectations for this debate?

TARA SETMAYER, CNN POLITICAL COMMENTATOR: Well, I think we're going to see some interesting dynamics going into this debate because things have changed a little bit. There's no Scott Walker on the stage this time, and this time you have Ben Carson in the middle flanked by, you know, Trump and Marco Rubio instead of Jeb Bush. So Ben Carson, being the outsider, his career as a neurosurgeon, he -- economics isn't exactly his strong point. So tonight he's going to be forced -- that night he's going to have to forced to discuss policy that he's not normally comfortable with.

So if there's going to be a time for him to stumble, perhaps, it may be at a debate like this. And Donald Trump may be able to, since he's not very happy about being in second right now, in Iowa in one national poll, he may be able to use his knowledge of economics as a businessman to help him regain that lead.

SESAY: Do you see this debate, and given, as you say, the difference and the change in the polls, do you see this one getting especially nasty? Because, you know, 100 days out from the Iowa and the polls are on Trump's favor certainly a couple of them in Iowa and now Carson is edging Trump in one national poll. Is this the one where the gloves come off?

[01:05:01] SETMAYER: Well, I mean, I hope not in just for a -- the good of American politics. I would hope that people would stay above board, but given Trump's disposition and his entry into this whole thing, politeness has kind of gone out the window except that Ben Carson has used being polite and level headed and very low energy, if you want to use a Trump term to rise above it. So as Marco Rubio actually, and it seems to have worked at least for Ben Carson in the polls and Marco Rubio is beginning to move up a little bit.

But you know who may take the gloves off? And that's Jeb Bush. Jeb Bush is in a terrible position. His campaign did not have a great summer. He's very low in the polls. He's at single digits and donors are starting to question his strengths. So he said over the weekend we saw him get a little testy discussing how he could -- you know, he's got cooler things to do than to run for president and engage in these kinds of back and forth, and be miserable -- well, he looked pretty miserable during that conversation.

SESAY: He did.

SETMAYER: So I would hope that he doesn't bring that energy into the debate tomorrow, and if that's his version of taking the gloves off, I think that doesn't suit him well.

SESAY: If he doesn't have a good debate showing, how much longer can he keep going in this race?

SETMAYER: Well, his super PAC is very well funded. The Right to Rise super PAC has a lot of money, so they can prop up his candidacy probably well into the Super Tuesday states in the spring. So -- if he wants to. I mean, if he gets to the point where he's so frustrated that it doesn't matter, that we may see him exit sooner than that. But as of right now, I think that he's still -- given the strength of his super PAC and that level of money, it can carry him pretty far.

However we need to see. Because he can't afford -- Jeb Bush really has the most at stake here. He cannot afford to have another mediocre debate. He really can't. Because then his donors are going to shift their support most likely to the next person which would be Marco Rubio.

SESAY: What about Carly Fiorina? What does she have to do to boost her chances? She had a great showing in the last debate. Her numbers went up, they're sagging now. Talk to me about, you know, what she needs to do tomorrow and really if she really has a crack at this.

SETMAYER: Yes. I think Carly Fiorina, again being that she -- her career is in business also, one of a CEO, she will be able to speak with authority on the issue of economics. So the topic helps her. However, Carly Fiorina's problem has been for the most part her low name ID. Most people didn't know who she was. And the only opportunity they really got introduced to her was during the debates. And she knocked it out of the park the first two debates so she must absolutely do that again to kind of get that game, that momentum, and hopefully this time maintain it.

She was unable to do so after the second debate because she was out of the news. Again, Trump and Carson were dominating the news cycle. It was tough for her to get in there and they stated to -- the opponents started to attack her record as CEO of Hewlett-Packard and she didn't absorb those hits too well. So this is an opportunity for her to reintroduce herself again and discuss some things that she knows -- that she can speak with authority on. And hopefully she'll have another great showing for her and then she can carry that momentum. But she has to absolutely have another great debate.

SESAY: We'll see how it all plays out on Wednesday night.

Tara Setmayer, joining us there from New York. Appreciate it. Thank you.

SETMAYER: Thank you.

SESAY: Now Democratic frontrunner Hillary Clinton has an emphatic answer on what she'd do as president if the biggest U.S. banks got into trouble. During her appearance on CBS' "Late Show" Tuesday night, host Stephen Colbert post the question.

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STEPHEN COLBERT, HOST, "THE LATE SHOW WITH STEPHEN COLBERT": If you're president --

HILLARY CLINTON (D), PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE: Yes.

COLBERT: And the banks -- and the banks are failing, do we let them fail this time?

CLINTON: Yes, yes.

COLBERT: We let them fail this time.

CLINTON: Yes, yes, yes, yes. COLBERT: Wow.

CLINTON: Yes. First of all, under Dodd-Frank, that is what will happen because we now have stress tests, and I'm going to impose a risk fee on the big bank if they engage in risky behavior. But they have to know, their shareholders have to know, that yes, they will fail. And if they're too big to fail, then under my plan and others that have been proposed, they may have to be broken up because if you can't manage it, then it's more likely to fail.

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SESAY: With a little background on Dodd-Frank for you, it's a regulation reform law passed after the financial crisis in 2007 and 2008. Clinton rolled out her Wall Street plan earlier this month saying she wants to crack down on abuse and taxes and kinds of high frequency trading.

Well, we should find out sometime Wednesday what will happen to the school resource officer seen on video violently arresting a female student in South Carolina. The sheriff is deciding if the officer will keep his job or be fired.

Our Miguel Marquez has more on the disturbing video and the serious questions it has raised.

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[01:10:10] MIGUEL MARQUEZ, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): The video disturbing, a 16-year-old female high school student being forcefully ripped from her chair, handcuffed and removed from class.

BEN FIELDS, RICHLAND COUNTY DEPUTY: Give me your hands. Give me your hands.

MARQUEZ: The school resource officer, Ben Fields, a deputy with Richland County Sheriff's Department since 2004, has for now been removed from his duties at Spring Valley High School.

SHERIFF LEON LOTT, RICHLAND COUNTY, SOUTH CAROLINA: Want to throw up. I mean, this just makes you sick to your stomach when you see that initial video.

MARQUEZ: More of the disturbing encounter can be heard on a second video clip.

FIELDS: You don't know me? Are you going to come with me or am I going to make you? Come on, I'm going to get you up.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: I'm hurt.

FIELDS: Give me your hands.

MARQUEZ: A video shows the young woman striking the officer as he begins to remove her from the room. LOTT: It just shows that when an officer puts his hands on her

initially, she reaches up and pop stops with his fist. But again, does that justify the means? Is that justified what we did? And that's what I have to look at.

MARQUEZ: But what happened before the video started recording? Why would a deputy who received the district's highest honor last year use such force?

One student in the room writes on social media, "The officer in this is a cool dude. He is not racist. Girl was asked to put her phone away but told teacher no, an administrator was called, asked her to come to his office. She told him no. And then called the resource officer. When he got there, he asked her nicely to get up, over and over. He did nothing wrong."

The incident has caused anger and revived long-held concerns about the treatment of young African-Americans in the school district here.

REV. NELSON RIVERS, NATIONAL ACTION NETWORK: And what about the school resource officers -- school resources offices? We really have to take a look at this because they are arresting more people in school than they are in the streets. That cannot be.

MARQUEZ: The local ACLU chapter notes school discipline, everything from arrests to expulsions and suspensions, is disproportionate. Sixty-one percent of African-Americans receiving such discipline compared with 29 percent of white students.

Miguel Marquez, CNN, Columbia, South Carolina.

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SESAY: Well, by now that video has probably been seen by millions of people. But the kids in that classroom during the incident saw it happen in real life. One of those students says she spoke out about what was happening and also got arrested. She told CNN what she thinks should happen to the officer.

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NAYA KENNY, SECOND STUDENT ARRESTED IN CASE: Honestly, I'm just going to say it. I really think he should lose his job. I feel like not even an officer, like, no man should put his hands on a child like that. She's 16 years old. And this man is huge. I feel like he needs to lose his job.

SIMONU MARTIN, NAYA KENNY'S ATTORNEY: It really is sad and it's devastating and infuriating that a 300-pound weight lifting, muscle- bound man would assault a child the way that he did, and I feel as if a public apology is appropriate in this case as well as termination. Honestly, this is a horrible situation to have taken place in our schools and someone has to pay. Someone has to be accountable for those inhumane and barbaric actions.

(END VIDEO CLIP) SESAY: Well, the local sheriff says he's reviewing all the evidence as he makes his decision on the officer's future. Earlier he spoke to CNN's Don Lemon and had this to say about what will go into that decision.

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LOTT: This is something that not only people in Richland County but the world wants to know what's going to happen to him. Is he going to be able to still be employed or is he going to be terminated? And I think I owe it to everybody to make a quick decision, but I also wanted to be fair and do a thorough investigation and that's what we've done.

DON LEMON, CNN ANCHOR: Can you tell us, Sheriff, which way you're leaning?

LOTT: No. Really, I don't think that's proper for me to describe which way I'm leaning at this point. I think the video is very explicit and that's probably pretty much speaks for itself.

(END VIDEO CLIP)

SESAY: Well, you can find much more on the story including video of the incident, plus a look at the officer's history by going to our Web site. That's at CNN.com.

Now China is treating the movement of a U.S. warship as a provocation. We'll have a live update on the territorial dispute in the South China Sea.

Plus Kurdish fighters have pushed ISIS out of their territory in northern Syria, but there is still lingering fear and distrust.

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CLARISSA WARD, CNN SENIOR INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT: Dozens of villages like this one that were liberated from ISIS months ago are now still completely deserted. Now that's partly because the ISIS militants before they retreated planted land mines and booby traps all across this area, but it's also because many people here aren't convinced that ISIS won't be coming back.

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SESAY: Russia is denying accusations that its air strikes hit hospitals in Syria. The denial is a response to a claim by the Syrian American Medical Society. Russia's Defense Ministry says that group has made false assertions before. The Syrian American Medical Society stands by its accusation that Russian planes hit its hospitals.

Well, the U.S. is considering stepping up its campaign against ISIS in Syria and Iraq. Defense Secretary Ash Carter testified before U.S. lawmakers Tuesday proposing more airstrikes or, quote, "direct action on the ground."

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ASHTON CARTER, U.S. DEFENSE SECRETARY: And from the skies above, we expect to intensify our air campaign including with additional U.S. and coalition aircraft. To target ISIL with a higher and heavy rate of strikes. This will include more strikes against ISIL high valued targets as our intelligence improves. Also its oil enterprise which is a critical pillar of ISIL's financial infrastructure. As I said last Friday, we've already begun to ramp up these deliberate strikes.

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[01:20:09] SESAY: Well, U.S. and coalition forces launched 13 new airstrikes against ISIS in Syria and Iraq on Monday. The White House has yet to decide on the new options but several Republican senators are criticizing the proposed strategy. They question whether U.S. trained forces would begin fighting Syria's Assad regime and not just ISIS.

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REP. LINDSEY GRAHAM (R), SOUTH CAROLINA: If I'm Assad, this is a good day for me because the American government has just said without saying it that they're not going to fight to replace me.

What you've done, gentlemen, along with the president, is you've turned Syria over to Russia and Iran. All I can say this is a sad day for America and the region will pay hell for this because the Arabs are not going to accept this. The people in Syria are not going to accept this. This is a half-assed strategy at best.

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SESAY: The U.S. is relying heavily on Kurdish fighters to carry the fight against ISIS and those fighters are gradually gaining ground in northern Syria. But in the newly liberated Hasakah Province, there's evidence that the terror group is not far away.

CNN senior international correspondent Clarissa Ward spent several days in the region and found a landscape scarred by battle and haunted by fear.

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WARD (voice-over): Weeks ago, these dusty plains were held by ISIS. This is what's left of its presence now. The charred remains of a training camp hidden in a pine forest. It's where ISIS trained an elite unit of suicide bombers that attacked Kurdish positions with devastating effect.

Kurdish fighters known as the YPG took this entire area from ISIS in August, but holding it, along a front line more than 400 miles long, is a huge challenge. In the shadow of Mt. Abdulazeez, Commander Zinar told us that he had

lost 30 of his fighters in a recent battle when ISIS came down from the mountain.

CHIEF ZINAR, YPG COMMANDER (Through Translator): The enemy attacked us with a large number of fighters, using heavy weapons. They took control of three villages and after that, the clashes lasted for hours until we were in control again.

WARD: Zinar is a battalion commander, but this is the size of his battalion, a handful of poorly equipped men. The nearest friendly forces are miles away.

The cost of pushing ISIS out has been enormous. Streets here are draped with the flags of fighters killed in battle. Along desolate roads, through abandoned villages, we saw scene upon scene of devastation. The wreckage of months of fierce fighting and relentless coalition airstrikes.

(On camera): Dozens of villages like this one that were liberated from ISIS months ago are now still completely deserted. Now that's partly because the ISIS militants before they retreated planted landmines and booby traps all across this area, but it's also because many people here aren't convinced that ISIS won't be coming back.

(Voice-over): In the tiny village of Mekhlouja, we met a Wadha, who's lived her all her life. She told us she was too afraid to leave home when ISIS was in control, that they beat and killed people and brought misery upon the community.

"There were no airstrikes before they arrived and then the strikes started. There was one next to me. We were scared of everything. Not just ISIS."

Are you still afraid, I ask. She says not, but glances warily at the Kurdish YPG fighters with us.

The Kurds question the loyalty of many of these villages, claiming they harbor ISIS sympathizers. The killing may have stopped, but there is no peace here.

Clarissa Ward, CNN, Mt. Abdulazeez, Syria.

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SESAY: Well, all this week our senior international correspondent Clarissa Ward brings you a series of reports from northern Syria. CNN visits the areas newly liberated from ISIS yet still vulnerable and meets the people who are defending the frontlines. Only here on CNN.

Well, China says a U.S. warship made a very serious provocation when it sailed near one of China's manmade islands in the South China Sea Tuesday. China claims the area is its sovereign territory and says the warship entered illegally. But the U.S. doesn't recognize China's territorial claim as legal and says its missions will continue.

CNN's Steven Jiang joins us in just a moment from Beijing, but let's start with Will Ripley who's live at the Yokosuka Naval Base in Japan.

Will and Steven, good to have you with us. But Will, what's the Japanese government's view of the U.S. mission in the South China Sea?

WILL RIPLEY, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Well, the United States and the Japanese government of course are close allies. The United States has a number of military installations in this country, including this particular naval base which is the home base for the USS Lassen, the warship that passed by that manmade island and has basically sparked this escalating tension in the region.

[01:25:17] But this has really been building for months. And for a long time, Japan and the United States have been talking about their concern that the Chinese government is becoming more assertive in pushing its boundaries further and further away from mainland China. It was something that was extensively discussed when Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and President Obama met in Washington this past spring.

And so what you're seeing this United States action in the South China Sea, these what they call Freedom of Navigation patrols, this is something that they've been considering for quite a while, they've been doing aerial patrols and now they plan to launch more of these sea patrols as well because they do not recognize China's claim to these areas. They say it's international waters. They're found in international law and that of course clearly an act that is infuriating the Chinese government as they say yesterday.

SESAY: Will, we appreciate the insider perspective. Stand by for us.

Steven, if I could turn to you. We know that the U.S. ambassador to China was summoned. Do we know anymore about that meeting, any details emerging?

STEVEN JIANG, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Well, Isha, Ambassador Baucus certainly got a severe dressing down from the Chinese Vice Foreign minister, but the message he received was very similar to what the ministry has said publicly, that the U.S. action has armed China's sovereignty and national security as well as endangering the life of those on those islands, and also the Chinese side considers this move a severe provocation, and Beijing asked Washington to correct its mistakes and come back to the track of more dialogue and consultation.

But, Isha, remember, the word of this mission leaked out some time ago, and Chinese officials have been telling me privately that they felt perplexed and frustrated about the U.S. insistence on going ahead with this. They say this comes so soon after what they consider to be a very good and successful visit by the Chinese president to the U.S. where this issue was discussed. That certainly -- they don't understand why the U.S. is doing this.

This kind of a sentiment by Chinese officials may explain why the Foreign Ministry's response has been so quick and angry -- Isha.

SESAY: Very, very interesting indeed. Steven Jiang joining us there from Beijing and our own Will Ripley joining us from the Yokosuka Naval Base. We appreciate it. Thank you to you both. Well, next on CNN NEWSROOM, it is soon going to be much harder to buy

a gun in one major U.S. city. That's because the last gun store there is about to close.

And a dramatic end to game one of the World Series that took 14 innings to decide.

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[01:31:17] SESAY: You're watching CNN NEWSROOM live from Los Angeles. I'm Isha Sesay. The headlines this hour.

The U.S. is considering upping its campaign against ISIS in Syria and Iraq. Defense Secretary Ash Carter testified before U.S. lawmakers Tuesday proposing more air strikes or, quote, "direct action on the ground." The White House is yet to make a decision on the options.

Republican support for U.S. presidential candidate, Ben Carson, is surging. A new poll from CBS and "The New York Times" shows Carson leading Donald Trump with support from 26 percent of likely voters. Trump sits at 22 percent.

The FBI is investigating the violent arrest of a South Carolina high school student. The incident was caught on video. It shows a school resource officer pulling the student from her seat and dragging her across the floor. The local sheriff says he'll soon decide if the officer will lose his job.

Well, the police department in Baltimore is testing body cameras on its officers. The goal is to improve public and officer safety. Reports say the 54-day pilot program will allow the department to sample several products before making a final decision. Six months ago, the controversial death of a black man in police custody sparked heavy rioting in Baltimore.

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HANNAH PARISH (ph), BALTIMORE CITY POLICE DEPARTMENT: There's two sides to every story, and it's not often that the police officer's side comes out. The fairness on each side, and if there's stuff going wrong that needs to be addressed, and I think it will hold everyone a little more accountable.

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SESAY: Reports say the officers have the option of leaving the body cameras on or off while on duty. But their motto is when in doubt, record it.

Handgun owners in Los Angeles will face new responsibilities. The L.A. city counsel voted that gun owners will have to keep their guns locked up or with a trigger lock when they're not using them. The new rule is meant to protect children. L.A.'s mayor is expected to sign the measure and it would go into affect in 30 days.

San Francisco's last gun store is closing its doors at the end of the month. The general manager of the High Bridge Arms blames new gun laws he says violate customer's privacy. The new laws call for videotaping all purchases, recording all gun sales and reporting ammunition sales.

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UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Bad guys can still get theirs. It's making it harder for people to come in and get stuff to protect them and their families and keep them safe.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: I think they need to address more along the lines of the illegal activity being done in the street and to address violence in general, not just with guns.

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Joining me live from San Francisco is city supervisor, Mark Ferrell.

Mr. Ferrell, great to have you with us.

The owners of the High Bridge Arms Stores are partly blaming your proposals for their upcoming closure. How do you respond to that?

MARK FERRELL, SAN FRANCISCO CITY SUPERVISOR: Look, unfortunately, we have a gun violence epidemic across our country right now. Whether it's the mass shootings over the past few years from Sandy Hook to Oregon just a few weeks ago, gun violence is killing hundreds of thousands of Americans here in our country. And Congress continues to fail us. In the wake of all of these tragedies, they have not passed one single gun safety law in response. When a federal government doesn't act, it becomes incumbent upon local jurisdictions, like San Francisco, to make sure we pass legislation to protect the residents of our own cities.

SESAY: Mr. Ferrell, what do you say to those who say San Francisco already had some of the toughest gun laws in the books and these new measures are simply about optics and playing to your city's liberal elite?

[01:35:08] FERRELL: The legislation that I introduced and we passed unanimously today at the Board of Supervisors in San Francisco was modeled after others who had the same pieces of legislation. Chicago, in particular, and another city in the state of California, already had the videotaping legislation that was passed today. And as well, the ammunition sales data legislation that I introduced and was passed today already exists in about 14 other jurisdictions in the state of California. In this instance, San Francisco is making sure we continue to lead but also follow other jurisdictions that have similar laws in place at the moment.

SESAY: Will these measures mean anything for illegal gun sales. Obviously, this is a last store in San Francisco closing but the question is does this shift to illegal gun sales and your critics say this won't have any impact on that.

FERRELL: The facts are that over 75 percent of the guns used in the United States in gun violence instances are legally obtained. And over 80 percent of the guns in mass shootings against the United States since the 1970s have been legally obtained. So we have a strong problem in our country with strong man purchases, people who come and purchase guns legally and turn around and sell them illegally. This gun store, in particular, in the city of San Francisco, sold over 1,000 guns every year. If that means 1,000 less guns on the streets of San Francisco, I believe the streets of San Francisco will be safer. And I will never shy away from making public safety one of my top concerns in our city.

SESAY: Do you think this kind of city-led action will take off in other parts of the country?

FERRELL: I certainly hope so. Again, when Congress continues to fail to act, it is based now on local jurisdictions to make sure we place the public safety of our residents first. We also have to acknowledge it's different living in a city, such as San Francisco or other major urban centers across the city, than if someone is homesteading in Alaska and requires a firearm to put food on their table every night. Different places will have different laws. I fully anticipate that. I believe it's a different discussion when you're talking about living in the urban areas cores of our country, such as the city of San Francisco, and what gun safety laws mean and what they should be promoting.

SESAY: Mark Ferrell, San Francisco supervisor, we appreciate your time tonight. Thank you for joining us.

FERRELL: Thank you.

SESAY: Now, Apple defied Wall Street expectations with an impressive quarterly earnings report. Their profits surged 31 percent thanks to strong iPhone and Mac sales. The biggest jump was in China, the second-largest market behind North America, where they almost doubled sales. Apple says it believes China will become their largest market someday, and their recent success bodes well for that prediction.

Twitter, meanwhile, did not have the quarter it was hoping for and unlike with Apple, Wall Street took note. The stock fell by 10 percent as the company failed to reach the goal for adding new users. They're struggling with the same problem it's had for a while. Those familiar with the service love it, but those who aren't are in no rush to embrace it. CEO Jack Dorsey acknowledged the problem, but how he'll fix it, that bid is unclear.

Still to come here on CNN NEWSROOM, live from L.A., a new climate change study says one part of the world may soon be too hot for humans. We'll tell you where. Stay with CNN.

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[01:41:53] SESAY: Parts of the Middle East could soon be too hot for humans to live in and it's all due to climate change. That's according to a new study published in "Nature Climate Change." The report says extreme heat could set in within a century. A companion study claims temperatures could reach up to 60 degrees Celsius. Meteorologist Pedram Javaheri joins us with more on the story

Pedram, these are some pretty scary claims.

PEDRAM JAVAHERI, AMS METEOROLOGIST: They are. Absolutely are. We've seen so many studies, Isha, when it comes to climate change, how it relates to glacial melts, sea level rise, extreme level patterns. This took farther, towards the Arabian Peninsula, already known for being one of the hottest places on our planet, and put the greenhouse gas emissions we're putting out and analyzed it to the year 2100, so taking it 85 years out, seeing how the temperatures would react in this portion of the world. Again, the temperature indications were the air temperature would feel maybe up to 40 to 50 Celsius, beyond that to maybe 60 Celsius. That's 120, 130 and 140 Fahrenheit consistency. That's considered the wet-bulb temperature, and that's air temperature plus humidity. We know that when it comes to the wet- bulb temperature, 35 Celsius is a critical temperature. That's where the body can't cool itself off. Here's how your body reacts. As any living thing, when you take a look at environmental conditions, that has a lot to do with our survivability rate. If the humidity is low, the air temperature is high, you're able to evaporate the air off your skin. Bring the humidity and the air temperature up, which is suggested will happen, now you're talking about your body ceasing to sweat, and the cooling is not there. You feel trapped with the tremendous amount of moisture surrounding you. You take a look at this portion of the world, well known for excessive heat. The typically in the summer months a massive dome of high pressure. The bodies water, high population populations. Plenty of moisture on the immediate coasts. We've seen temperatures very exceeding incredible values. This past summer in Iran on the gulf coast there, an air temperature of 46 Celsius. That's 115 Fahrenheit. The do you want temperature reached that critical value of 35 Celsius, 95 Fahrenheit. Isha, that is 162 degrees Fahrenheit. If this pattern continues within six hours even the fittest humans would succumb to the conditions based on what we see about humans and the conditions -- Isha?

SESAY: A very frightening proposition.

Pedram Javaheri joining us from the "International Weather Center."

Thank you, Pedram.

JAVAHERI: Thanks.

SESAY: Canadian authorities are still searching for one person missing after whale watching boat sank Sunday. Five people were killed when the boat capsized off Canada's western coast and 21 people were rescued. A married couple from a Native American reservation were among the first to respond to the call for help.

Stephanie Elam has the story.

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[01:45:16] FRANCIS CAMPBELL, HELPED RESCUE BOATERS: We don't know how it happened. We're just lucky we were there to help and assist.

STEPHANIE ELAM, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): Francis and Michelle Campbell were already in a boat making their way to Tofino on Vancouver Island when they heard the distress call for a capsized whale watching boat in the waters near the reservation. The couple, along with two hikers they were taking back to shore, were the second group to arrive at the accident.

MICHELLE, CAMPBELL, HELPED RESCUE BOATERS: I saw the life raft. And he yelled at us. There were other bodies the other way. We found two ladies. We picked up the two ladies.

ELAM (on camera): They're alive?

MICHELLE CAMPBELL: They're all alive.

ELAM (voice-over): Besides the struggle to pull them on this boat, the survivors were coated in oil, making it harder to get them on board. Michelle is traumatized by the image of one woman fighting for her life.

MICHELLE CAMPBELL: When I first looked at her, her eyes were open. She went under, because I couldn't grab her.

ELAM (on camera): You saved her. She's here because of you.

(voice-over): A 65-foot cruiser was carrying 27 people when the accident happened. Five people were killed, all British nationals ranging in age from 18 to 76. One person has yet to be found.

FRANCIS CAMPBELL: After we picked up the other group, I saw the deceased ones, the ones that drowned. A couple were about 20 feet away from me.

ELAM: As the investigation continues into what caused the accident, Canadian officials moved the tour boat to this location closer to shore. The hull is still sticking out of the water. The cabin eerily visible below the surface.

In all, the Campbells and the hikers rescued eight people from the water, all of whom lived.

MICHELLE CAMPBELL: I thank God that those people can go home to their family. I know coming home to my family is really good.

ELAM (on camera): You saved them and you're still troubled?

MICHELLE CAMPBELL: I just close my eyes and I can see them in the water. I can see it. Things you should never have to see.

ELAM (voice-over): Stephanie Elam, CNN, Tofino, British Columbia.

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SESAY: It's all very sad. Well, a slowing economy and a crack down on corruption are having an

impact on China's gambling resorts. Ahead, a live report from Macau where a new multibillion dollar casino will be a big winner.

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JAVAHERI: Good day. Pedram Javaheri, with you for CNN "Weather Watch."

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[01:51:55] SESAY: Welcome back. The Major League Baseball World Series is off to a thrilling start. The Kansas City Royals just won the longest game won in World Series history. Beating the New York meets 5-4 in a nail biter that lasted 14 innings. That wasn't the only excitement. The game was interrupted at one point when FOX Sports suffered a brief power outage. They issued an apology for the technical difficulties on Twitter.

Tuesday was a big night for professional baseball. The NBA kicked off its season. It was special for the Golden State Warriors because the 2015 NBA champions received their rings and revealed their new championship banner to their fans.

Well, the night's other big matchup, the Bulls pulling off the victory against the Cleveland Cavaliers. And the Bulls and Cavs had a very special guest in the building, none other than the U.S. president, Barack Obama. The president is on a two-day trip to his hometown.

Away from sports now. Even though China's gambling hub has seen 16 months of declining revenue, a $3.2 billion casino is open for business. Macau's Studio City is aimed at casual gamblers instead of high rollers.

Matt Rivers is in Macau and joins us now live with details.

Matt, these casino owners are making a big gamble here. Big gamble, get it?

MATT RIVERS, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Absolutely right. The goal is to get even beyond casual gamblers, people who aren't gambling to fill the revenue void left by those VIPs leaving. And the ways to do it, create rides like this, the ferris wheel. Look at this view behind me. I'm standing on this glass floor here. Casino owners are hoping rides like this one get other people in the door.

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RIVERS (voice-over): The rattle of the roulette wheel is not quote as loud as it was in Asia's own sin city. High rollers who once spent big on the VIP tables aren't filling the seat the way they used to.

(on camera): Gaming revenues are down 36 percent in 2015. And in a place like Macau, as go the casinos, so goes the local economy. It shrank more than 26 percent in the last quarter alone. That's good enough to make it the worst performing economy in the world.

(voice-over): A big reason for that, the ongoing anti-corruption campaign in mainland China. President Xi Jinping has made a big push to curb lavish spending that's made gaming revenues in Macau today five times larger than Las Vegas. But the government wants the resorts to offer more.

LAWRENCE HO, CEO, MELCO CROWN ENTERTAINMENT: We've invested 3.2 billion U.S. 95 percent of the space is for nongaming.

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RIVERS: Lawrence Ho is the man behind the newest kid in the back, studio city Macau. It offers rides, shows, even a ferris wheel. Ho says that's the way to tap into a growing Chinese middle-class, but admits there is no long-term future in Macau without gambling.

[01:55:17] HO: The truth is gaming is the financial engine. Without the gaming component, we wouldn't build fantastic properties.

RIVERS: But backing its pledge to diversify, the government has put strict limits on the number of tables each new casino can have.

Casino Magnet Steve Wynn slammed the policy on a call earlier this month.

"Preposterous" he fumed. "In my 45 years of experience, I have never seen anything like this."

His anger came as Wynn's Macau Division reported a revenue decline of nearly 40 percent.

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RIVERS: If you notice the view hasn't changed, that's because there's a technical glitch. We haven't moved in 25 minutes. We are safe inside but it is a microcosm as casino owners work out glitches to bring those revenues higher once again.

Back to you in the studio.

SESAY: Oh, no, trapped in a ferris wheel. Matt Rivers stay safe. Hope you come down soon.

Matt Rivers joining us from Macau. Appreciate it.

You are watching CNN NEWSROOM, live from Los Angeles. I'm Isha Sesay. Stay with us. The news continues next.

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